Coulsdon Memorial Ground

• Car park
• Children's playground
• Bowling green
• Putting green
• Changing room
• Tennis courts
• Basketball court
• Cricket (seniors)
• Netball court
• Toilets
• There is a cafe which is open all year
• The Memorial Ground is closed at night

Located in Coulsdon, Marlpit Lane

Coulsdon Memorial Ground was opened in 1921 after being purchased in 1920 by the Coulsdon and Purley Urban District Council and part by public subscription from Messers Hall and Company Ltd.  The putting green area was purchased several years later.  All the land was originally part of Edmund Byrons Coulsdon Estate.

The park is situated on a fairly steep slope and is laid out for a number of sports.

At the top of the hill there is a memorial which takes the form of a portico with a rear wall bearing the names of the fallen, with the inscription to the memory of the men of Coulsdon who fell in the Great War 1914-1919.  A bronze plaque was added bearing the words and in memory of those who fell in the World War 1939-1945.

To the rear of the Recreation Ground are deep chalk quarries which in the past had spur lines from the local railway running right into the slopes to transport the extracted stone.

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Friday, 25 July, 2008

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